well the united arab emirates has become a laughing stock on social media after announcing the winners of its annual gender balance index now to celebrate the role of women in shaping the future of the country medals were awarded in the categories best government entities supporting gender balance you had best federal authorities supporting gender balance and best gender balance initiative but you may notice something missing twitter noticed as well i m sorry to have to be the one to tell you but you forgot to invite women commented this dutch journalist another twitter user joke wow really nailed the diversity there one of those duties was wearing gray now the emirates did post a picture including women a little later but none of them is holding an actual award and they didn t even name the woman in the credits a last year of the u.n. slammed the emirates human rights record sounding the alarm on the discrimination